This is an episode is about psychics and channeling.
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What is channeling? I define it as when a person shuts off their thoughts and allows some other entity (spirits, guides, angels, in some cases, demons) to come through them, either through written or spoken word. Some people find this really creepy and off-putting. And I think it’s so cool, and I love to hear people channel. And there are a lot of people out there claiming that they can channel. Many of these people also say that we all can channel and write books teaching folks how to do it.
When I was younger, I remember I would occasionally make jokes that were so clever, and I would think it didn’t come from me. It was like some other force put the joke in my head. Then it went away completely.
One of the most famous channelers is Esther Hicks, who claims to channel a group of entities who call themselves Abraham. The message they bring is very consistent – it’s basically the Law of Attraction – so if you focus on something you want, you’ll bring it in your life. Most people get the gist of this, and either believe it or not. One thing Abraham never does is channel future prophecy. Rather, they just give advice about how to bring ease into your life while also manifesting your dreams.
Abraham Hicks – Let The Universe Work Things Out For You
Some of you may have heard of the spiritual teacher, Eckhart Tolle. He teaches people to focus their energy and attention on the Present moment. There’s so much more to his teachings than that, and it would be ridiculous for me to go into it more, but I bring him up because I believe; he’s never said this, but I think all he does is channel – all the time.
But what’s a little baffling is the fact that a lot if not most channelers are not able to do it for long before they need to take a break. So it’s always interesting to me how Esther Hicks can channel Abraham for days on end, and Eckhart Tolle only channels.
What happened to these people that allowed them to channel? For Esther Hicks, her husband, Jerry, actually dragged her to see a channeler with him. I believe the channeler was Sheila Gillette, the woman who channels an entity called Theo. They had a thirty minute session where they asked “Theo” questions through Sheila. Esther, I think, was a little put off by all of this, because she thought it was weird. But Jerry was totally into it. At the end of the session, Jerry was like, how do I get to ask you more questions? And Theo told them that Esther had the gift of channeling.
So the two of them then went home and started meditating every day. Even though Esther thought that channeling was weird, she very much enjoyed meditation, so practicing this was no problem for her. Then, one day, she realized that her nose was moving in the air, and she was spelling letters. Jerry busted out a pen and paper and started writing down everything she spelled. She continued to do that for a bit, and then she transitioned to typing stuff out, and eventually, she was able to channel their communications directly through spoken voice. This process took about a year, so it took some commitment. People of course think she’s a fraud. You’ll find all kinds of hit pieces on her online which you’ll find about anything interesting. I think she’s legit, but I guess I’ll never really know.
Eckhart Tolle is legit – he’s what a human being becomes when the ego scoots out of the way. There’s simply no doubt in my mind that he is speaking words from beyond the reality we understand. His experience was very unique. When he was 29 years old, he was I think a post-doc at Oxford, but just living an absolutely miserable life. He would wake up in the middle of the night with anxiety and dread. And one night, as he was experiencing this misery, he said, “I can’t live with myself anymore.” Then, he thought, wait, if I cannot live with myself…then who is the I and who is the myself? There must be two of me. And with this thought or realization, he basically underwent a complete dissolution of his ego.
And just so this makes a little more sense, Tolle points out that most of us are constantly trapped inside our minds. Our minds are always thinking, and we think it’s us who are doing the thinking, but it’s something other than us. And if that sounds crazy to you, then, this may not be the right time for you. A few years ago, I bought his book, The Power of Now, and it just sat on the shelf for at least a year or two before one night when I finally decided to crack it open. I was feeling the same sense of dread and depression that I would get on Sunday nights before I had to go back to work the next day, but when I started reading this book, just the first chapter, I instantly had this sense of peace and calm, and the pages seemed to be glowing. Not everyone experiences that, and I think that’s because we’re all here having our own unique experience – Tolle’s teachings are for some people but not necessarily for everyone all the time.
One thing you could try, though, is just to close your eyes and feel your hands. Focus your energy on your hands, and you can even focus your energy inside your body. For me, this gives me some relief from the constant chattering of my mind. It also gives me a sense of peace and sometimes elation. This is basically how Eckhart feels all the time because the part of him which caused him to think constantly and basically be trapped inside his mind all the time died when he was 29.
Anyway, back to Tolle’s life story which is an interesting combination of boring beyond belief and fascinating — so for 2 years, Tolle just sat on park benches and enjoyed the day, enjoyed watching the people go by – just felt supreme ecstasy all the time. He was broke, I’m not sure if he was homeless, and it didn’t matter. His mind was no longer there to tell him that he was living life the wrong way, that others were doing better than he, that he was a failure. It turns out all of
those beliefs are just lies that you don’t have to continue believing.
But after a few years of this, he thought that there might be more that he could experience. And one day, he went for a walk, then he walked into a church, and when he got inside he said something like, “I would like some acceleration please.” I don’t know if there were other people in the church with him; like, “kids, stay away from that man.” BTW, when he tells this story, it’s not like he thought to himself, “I’m going to the church to pray.” It’s more like, he just received an impulse to go for a walk. Then, he received one to walk into the church. He’s just basically acting on pure faith with spiritual energy guiding him along his path all the time – just like Canadian Actor, Ryan Reynolds – jk.
So, he forgets about this entire incident and goes on living life, and about 3 months later, he wakes up with a book idea. Then, he receives an impulse to move to the West coast of America. Why? Who knows? But it’s so interesting because it suggests that there are external energetic forces which the other dimensions work with in order to work through us – the energy in CA was just more optimal for channeling this book – this was before the Kardashians became a thing.
Anyway, he didn’t know where he was going to go, but when he arrived, someone sublet a room for him, and every morning he would feel this tremendous energy flowing through him as he wrote the book, the Power of Now. When he was done, he was out of money, so he bought a lottery ticket and won 1 thousand dollars and he used this to get back to England – he was like, California sucks, I’m going home! Anyway, wrt the lotto ticket, you get the sense that it was not gambling. He was guided to buy it and it was what he needed. Kinda crazy!
A lot of Tolle’s teachings are not paranormal stories, But i did want to share one story from A New Earth which I thought was just nuts. So a woman came to see Tolle once, and she was riddled with emotional pain, anger, and she told him her story. And he led her through some thought exercises – whatever he felt guided to lead her through, and at the end, this woman, who had been experiencing quite a lot of pain her entire life, released a huge amount of pain. But here’s the crazy part. We all think that emotions are just etheric, non-tangible or not even real things, generally speaking. But when the woman left the room, Tolle had a friend come in, and she was like, “what is this dense, murky energy in this room? You need to open a window and burn some incense.”
Tolle says that he then went to a restaurant nearby, and there was a man in a wheelchair who looked over at Tolle really intensely for a moment, and then started having a huge fit – fighting with the waiters – all the way out of the restaurant as they tried kicking him out. It was a big scene; The man yelled at everyone in the restaurant – except for Tolle. Tolle didn’t really know what caused this, but he thought that the released emotion of the woman he’d just seen – he calls it the pain-body – came into that man to show Tolle, “You thought you defeated me. Look, I’m still here.” Alternatively, Tolle wondered if maybe the released energy – the pain body – followed him to the restaurant and just attached to the only person with compatible vibrational energy. Later on after the police had come, the manager came up to Tolle and said, jokingly, “did you cause all this?”
I’m going to put a pin in the topic of channelers for now – there’s so much more; so many more channelers to discuss. I’ve taken a bit of a left turn by even bringing up Eckhart Tolle under the topic of channeling, because no one thinks of Eckhart as a channeler – I’m just pretty sure that’s what he’s doing. There’s one woman who claims to channel Jesus, and, conveniently, when she channels Jesus, He’s always recommending that you buy her books, so I take her teachings with a grain of salt.
So, on to the topic of psychics. I think psychics gain their abilities in the same way that channelers do, often; though, there are many people who seem to have been born with psychic abilities – and, in some cases, these abilities seem to run in the family. There are many psychics, many accounts of psychics, and it’s very difficult to sort out whether psychic abilities are real. So what I recommend is that you develop your own abilities, and find out for yourself. While I cannot make this a podcast about how to become a psychic because that would probably be really boring, I can definitely say that step 1, no matter what book you’re reading or who you are following, step 1 is some sort of meditation practice – I try (and fail a LOT) to slow the constant thinking I do throughout the day.
I watched a show a year or two ago on Netflix called, “Surviving Death.” The first episode was about a woman who suffered from a near death experience and foresaw the death of one of her sons; and many years later, he died. It was so sad. And the episode was very well done. It was also convincing because she didn’t keep it a secret that she had seen this happen to her son – years before it actually happened. I think she even told him – good parenting.
But then, the series dedicated two episodes to Mediumship; and they focused for an incredibly long time on physical mediumship, which is when ectoplasm forms, or something like that. I’ve been into weird psychic shit for a few years now, and I can firmly say that this is nothing that has ever crossed my radar. Not to say it’s all BS, but what is the significance of having plasma or anything physical form? I couldn’t comprehend why they would focus on that. And, meanwhile, during the show, no physical matter was ever produced in any kind of convincing manner. So it all seemed like bullshit. Also, one of the mediums would channel a little boy named Tommy. And she sounded so ridiculous. For me to play a clip, I might get hit with a copyright issue, so I practiced really hard to give you my best imitation of the medium channeling the young boy, Tommy, “Hi Guys, it’s nice to be here.” It was the most unconvincing display I’ve seen, and I’m here to believe it all, baby!
